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Author : Louis Ehlert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann and His School written by Louis Ehlert and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026292
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann written by Jon W. Finson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges assumptions about Schumann’s Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann’s music.
Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226284697
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann written by Martin Geck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Here acclaimed biographer martin Geck tells the story of this multifaceted genius, set in the context of the political and social revolutions of his time.
Author : David Pogue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119049741
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Classical Music For Dummies written by David Pogue and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, oh, my! The beginner's guide to classical music Classical Music For Dummies is a friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide to composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more. Classical music is widely considered one of the pinnacles of human achievement, and this informative guide will shows you just how beautiful and rewarding it can be. You'll learn how Bach is different from Beethoven, how Mozart is different still, and why not all "classical" music is actually Classical if it's really Baroque or Romantic. You'll be introduced to the composers and their work, and discover the groundbreaking pieces that shake the world every time they're played. Begin building your classical music library with the essential recordings that define orchestral, choral, and operatic beauty as you get acquainted with the orchestras and musicians that bring the composers to life. Whether you want to play classical music or just learn more about it, Classical Music For Dummies will teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of this increasingly popular genre. Distinguish flute from piccolo, violin from viola, and trumpet from trombone Learn the difference between overtures, requiems, arias, and masses Explore the composers that shaped music as we know it Discover the recordings your music library cannot be without Classical music has begun sneaking into the mainstream — if your interest has been piqued, there's never been a better time to develop an appreciation for this incredibly rich, complex, and varied body of work. Classical Music For Dummies lays the groundwork, and demonstrates just how amazing classical music can be.
Author : John Daverio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195091809
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann written by John Daverio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the work of the romantic composer Robert Schumann.
Author : Ronald Taylor
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann, His Life and Work written by Ronald Taylor and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ronald Taylor has written the first full-length account of the life, times and work of Robert Schumann for many years. Based on a fresh reading of the original German sources, this wide-ranging, authoritative biography reveals the mind of Schumann behind the traditional image of the sad, romantic comoser of lyrical songs and piano music. Born into a literary family in Zwickau, Saxony, Robert Schumann (1810-56) was a contemporary of Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt and Wagner, and Ronald Taylor shows how throughout his life the twin strands of literature and music interacted. His artistic creativity was most perfectly expressed in miniature, in small-scale works for the piano and in songs, but in addition he composed much orchestral and other work on a grander scale: all this while his life was marred by dramatic crises and sadness. The crucial moments in Schumann's life are movingly recaptured: his four-year struggle, against her father's opposition, to marry the pianist Clara Wieck, his fight against his reticent, withdrawn nature and disturbing extremes of mood (possibly exacerbated by syphilis); his financial worries and the disappointing reception of his music; and finally his attempted suicide and decline into madness. By relating Schumann's work to his intellectual and spiritual life, to the historical currents of his age and to the specific context of 19th-century Romanticism, Ronald Taylor has written a coherent, thoughtful and ultimately tragic biography of one of the musical geniuses of the 19th century."--Dust jacket.
Author : John Worthen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300163988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann written by John Worthen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. John Worthen's scrupulous attention to the original sources reveals Schumann to have been an astute, witty, articulate, and immensely determined individual, who--with little support from his family and friends in provincial Saxony--painstakingly taught himself his craft as a musician, overcame problem after problem in his professional life, and married the woman he loved after a tremendous battle with her father. Schumann was neither manic depressive nor schizophrenic, although he struggled with mental illness. He worked prodigiously hard to develop his range of musical styles and to earn his living, only to be struck down, at the age of forty-four, by a vile and incurable disease. Worthen's biography effectively de-mystifies a figure frequently regarded as a Romantic enigma. It frees Schumann from 150 years of mythmaking and unjustified psychological speculation. It reveals him, for the first time, as a brilliant, passionate, resolute musician and a thoroughly creative human being, the composer of arguably the best music of his generation.
Author : Judith Chernaik
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451494474
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Schumann written by Judith Chernaik and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medical diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.
Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143090
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Schumann on Music written by Robert Schumann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 61 important critical pieces Schumann wrote for the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 1834–1844. Perceptive evaluations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, other giants; also Spohr, Moscheles, Field, other minor masters. Annotated.
Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551606
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Susanna Reich and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.
Author : Harald Krebs
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195169468
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Fantasy Pieces written by Harald Krebs and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theory of metrical conflict and applies it to the music of Schumann, thereby placing the composer's distinctive metrical style in full focus. It describes the various categories of metrical conflict that characterize Schumann's work, investigates how states of conflict are introduced and then manipulated and resolved in his compositions, and studies the interaction of such metrical conflict with form, pitch structure, and text. Throughout the text, Krebs intersperses his own theoretical assertions with Schumannesque dialogues between Florestan and Eusebius, who comment on the theory at hand while also discussing and illustrating relevant aspects of "their" metrical practices.
Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : London : V. Gollancz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Musical World of Robert Schumann written by Robert Schumann and published by London : V. Gollancz. This book was released on 1965 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Schumann was almost as important in his day for his criticism as for his compositions. His influence was great: it was thanks to him for instance that Berlioz was taken up with enthusiasm by the new romantic school in Germany when he visited the country in 1842. Schumann was one of the very first, also, to recognise the genius of Chopin, and to poke fun at German extra-musical Beethoven-worship. For ten years (1834-44) he owned, edited, and for the most part, wrote the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, but there has been no satisfactorily edited volume of these writings to date. A selection was translated by Fanny Raymond Ritter in 1876-79 and another translated by Paul Rosenfeld in 1946; in both cases, however, chronological order was disregarded and annotation was meagre. Moreover, the latter concentrated almost exclusively on what Schumann had written about the great masters. Henry Pleasants believes that chronological arrangement is essential to an understanding both of Schumann's progress as a writer and critic and of music in Germany during a decisive decade. He also believes that Schumann's status as a critic cannot be assessed and enjoyed simply from his glowing accounts of the greatest works, but that his views on composers such as Spohr, Hiller, Thalberg, Cramer and Sir William Sterndale Bennett (to name only a few of his contemporaries, famous then but little remembered today) are also important. Many of these composers were Schumann's friends, and his criticisms of their work tell us not only about them but also about Schumann himself. Mr. Pleasants has chosen a cross-section that reveals Schumann's critical powers as fully as possible, places him in perspective among his fellow musicians, and demonstrates his knowledge and appreciation of the composer's craft. The Neue Zeitschrift itself had a romantic beginning, late in 1833. Beethoven, Schubert and Weber were dead, and there seemed little ground for optimism about the future of music in Germany. A group of young men, eager for an advance, launched the magazine: but like many enterprises of its kind it was on the point of early dissolution when Schumann took it over. Wishing to express widely divergent views, he invented for the purpose the Davidsbundler, with Florestan and Eusebius as the principal members and master Raro as an intermediary. These names--so familiar to lovers of music and ballet, for he used two of them in his Carnaval variations--appear throughout the selection, humorously combining truth and poetry. Schumann was a sophisticated critic whose knowledge of, and sympathy with, his art and its exponents make him a model for generations to come. His selected writings, now for the first time fully annotated, are an outstanding and distinguished addition to our growing list of classics about music." --Dust jacket.
Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : London, Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Robert Schumann written by Robert Schumann and published by London, Murray. This book was released on 1907 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore Libbey
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761120728
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music written by Theodore Libbey and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource on classical music provides coverage of composers, works, musical terminology, and performers, along with recommended recordings and access to an interactive Web site that allows readers to listen to sample works, techniques, and performers discussed in the reference.
Author : Barbara Allman
Publisher : LernerClassroom
ISBN 13 : 1575051516
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Her Piano Sang written by Barbara Allman and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolrhoda's best-selling Creative Minds Biographies series appeals to a wide range of readers. Written in story format, these biographies also include inviting black-and-white illustrations. Praise for Her Piano Sang:
Author : Robert Schumann
Publisher : London : G. Bell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Early Letters of Robert Schumann written by Robert Schumann and published by London : G. Bell. This book was released on 1888 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Daverio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198025211
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Robert Schumann written by John Daverio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced by a hand injury to abandon a career as a pianist, Robert Schumann went on to become one of the world's great composers. Among many works, his Spring Symphony (1841), Piano Concerto in A Minor (1841/1845), and the Third, or Rhenish, Symphony (1850) exemplify his infusion of classical forms with intense, personal emotion. His musical influence continues today and has inspired many other famous composers in the century since his death. Indeed Brahms, in a letter of January 1873, wrote: "The remembrance of Schumann is sacred to me. I will always take this noble pure artist as my model." Now, in Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age," John Daverio presents the first comprehensive study of the composer's life and works to appear in nearly a century. Long regarded as a quintessentially romantic figure, Schumann also has been portrayed as a profoundly tragic one: a composer who began his career as a genius and ended it as a mere talent. Daverio takes issue with this Schumann myth, arguing instead that the composer's entire creative life was guided by the desire to imbue music with the intellectual substance of literature. A close analysis of the interdependence among Schumann's activities as reader, diarist, critic, and musician reveals the depth of his literary sensibility. Drawing on documents only recently brought to light, the author also provides a fresh outlook on the relationship between Schumann's mental illness--which brought on an extended sanitarium stay and eventual death in 1856--and his musical creativity. Schumann's character as man and artist thus emerges in all its complexity. The book concludes with an analysis of the late works and a postlude on Schumann's influence on successors from Brahms to Berg. This well-researched study of Schumann interprets the composer's creative legacy in the context of his life and times, combining nineteenth-century cultural and intellectual history with a fascinating analysis of the works themselves.
